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Dear friends, How unimaginably strange that on Martin Luther King Day, a single PWP who is a former MLK Holiday Committee Chairman is being threatened by foreclosure and loss of his PD-adapted home, because of his current insufficient income. That former MLK Chairperson (1985-1986) is me . I am fighting the corporation lawyers of the City of Portland,Maine. I am trying to be recognized as eligible for a poverty abatement of my property taxes and my sewer " availability " fees. (The sewer line was put in on my road 7 years ago, but I meanwhile am one of 111 homeowners with a nearly new septic system which pre-dates the sewer line back to 1983, and which works perfectly).I pay to maintain my septic, but the City in 1995 started charging us non-users for the sewer's potential availability. I can't afford this unnecessary bill. The Maine poverty abatement law recognizes "infirmity" as a basis for abatement (lowering the amount due) of both taxes and sewer. Any comments would be appreciated. The City of Portland has scheduled dispossession of my home on Feb 18. I have been trying to get an attorney who will listen to me for 18 months, still unsuccessfully. Not one wants to take on City Hall. Thank you for your comments, I AM STRESSED! Ivan Suzman 49/39/36